Conceptually, yes we are still CMYK in a way. Epson has been doing 6 colors for a while on consumer junk- that is not really CMYK is it??
There are better inks too-- one's "Cyan" is not another's and the same ink differs on the paper used. If you lower your space to a generic CMYK you are essentially losing data that could possibly be exploited by a printer's informed conversion (the consumer drivers today even want to know what kind of paper you are using.) Not to mention the K part; which depending upon printer, ink, paper, halftones, can differ where the thresholds of the inks are. Applying icc profiles should be plenty; in real time even better.
I do not see why there is any real benefit to a (simulated) CMYK model in a bitmap program like GIMP. Its all RGB on screen anyhow; icc profiles for specific devices are more useful if you want to get picky as far as the on-screen preview.
This is one of the BEST ideas I have heard! and I've read a lot about the issue (long before./ even noticed anything.)
A random machine acting as a control that has a known voting pattern input during the same period of time would help catch tampering. Hardly anybody has thought this one up or dares to do it (because the machines cost so much and it would mean more voters have to wait.) Good thing to have one or two of the volunteers do all day long. (video tape that machine as well...)
Too much talk of this idea however will just let the companies ("hackers") know to ignore machines that have an unusual input pattern and count them honestly.
Who seriously uses CMYK anymore? the color space on CONSUMER printers is greater than the CMYK model these days. All my printers except the cheap color laser exceed the range and produce better output from RGB (the driver/colorsync does the color space conversion.)
RAW and 16bit TIFF...High Dynamic Range would be nice.
I had a different experience. Before Win95 Rev C you were lucky to have a softmodem not hang up if you pasted some text into notepad. Even after the fixes it was harder to troubleshoot; the macs were fixed MOST the time with a simple preference file.
Stability is hard to compare. Back then it LARGELY was the software YOU RAN because neither OS had protected memory. Adobe software ran better on mac for example (while games ran horrible on mac; esp Sierra games.) Multimedia was better on mac due to an audio HAL and quicktime. Mac apps were HARD to write and that filtered out junk but it also introduced bugs. Fundamentally, I'd say mac OS was better engineered; 1 reason is they didn't do undocumented things in the API to "help" developer errors-- MacOS would give you bad results immediately when you messed up; unlike win95 crashing for no reason an hour after the last exec.
Unfortunately, we still have drivers in kernel memory so hardware support is still a problem for everybody. Don't give me crap about speed; there are nutcases out there using tons of overhead on Virtual Machines to get around OS and hardware shortcomings.
The US military could not possibly rule out jamming alternatives and can't allow somebody to have a bigger dick. GPS has to be about as good or better and that is part of the motivation (other than the usual reason; giving money to contractors.)
WHO can seriously believe for a second that they'd selectively block public GPS and allow alternative systems to function? They will be able to jam the others.
The USA can't break other satellites without risking retaliation. Space Flak is far far FAR more damaging than the antiaircraft kind.
11 million is probably enough to get into all the windows boxes out there with the help of microsoft; who would love to help the US government on its war on 'terrism'.
Microsoft already has a ton of stuff in Vista to keep the music and film empires happy and nothing to do with what an OS distribution is supposed to do. Why wouldn't they help out? Wiretaping... We only know about a FEW things that eventually leaked out.
Its a Vista update away... if not already having backdoors.
How do you make a living up there? I've wondered what kind of tech related work is possible as well as the internet access. I have a cabin south of Brainard and thought it would be great to live up there.
I think a general Government necessary for us, and there is no form of government but what may be a blessing to the people if well administered, and believe farther that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in Despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic Government, being incapable of any other.
A study could be done showing optimal ratios; but more useful would be finding a general trend in ratios. Its reasonable to assume its linear and goes down hill; however, it important enough to want to know what the graph is and aim for the better ratios.
Clearly, the system doesn't scale above certain limits (which I argue has been already surpassed.) I think 1,000 reps is not unreasonable; however, the ratio for that is still around 1:400,000 which is not good. The current system doesn't SCALE; the founders started with about 1:30,000 or so; which is on the order of an average mayor.
The US system (not being practiced) allows for modifications such as changing the operation of the house. Foolishly, the adaptation was to limit the House to 435 instead of considering many alternatives..
It is embarrassing how the American system has failed to function properly; which I attribute to the 4th branch (news) being corrupted in many ways in addition to the spoiled selfish public neglecting their duties. (I am an American, BTW.)
Bush cheated and had massive mainstream media support.
Bush was NOT elected in 2000. He was appointed in the most openly corrupt supreme court decision ever (or likely the worst.)
Bush narrowly won 2004 if you believe computer voting works and exit polls can be 10+ points off.
Remember that many of the scandals shortly AFTER the election were KNOWN and SUPPRESSED before the election. This includes the prisoner "abuse"; which for a long time is what the media called it-- "abuse" and almost never mentioned the videos of the serious "abuse" but focused upon the less objectionable (relatively) aspects.
Computer voting in ALL forms continues to get every benefit to delay resolving the problems. They put them in without delay but getting them out even if proven rigged would take YEARS...
The government is a manifestation of the nation; the people and they are ultimately responsible.
The irony in the USA is how many nationalistic government haters oppose social programs and support the militarization & police state.
The biggest threats of government are not PBS, firefighters, free education, or healthcare; but the "law and order" areas of government.
Having said what should be obvious; the social services should be better shielded with more separation of powers.
One has to remember in the USA we tolerate world-is-flat believers and despite being a minority, they have gained disproportional representation. (thankfully, not enough to mess with evolution in most public schools yet...) In addition, the US FOOLISHLY limited the number of representatives long ago. Is there a study showing the optimal ratio of people to representative?
You assume everybody wouldn't do something as foolish as using unsustainable power. The definition of fool exists because it is applicable to many people.
Its all about EXTERNALIZED COST. Externalization can easily exploit human flaws and end up with horrible results; getting "innocent" people to contribute to vile acts. I'd reference a few studies, but somebody would incorrectly apply godwin's law.. Shifting responsibility is an extremely dangerous habit to develop.
How much the system can take and being RESPONSIBLE, one should think long term. Its not "forever" (which IS silly) but its also not a few generations.
Coal: mercury in our lakes and this global warming were externalized for 100s of years... We can go forever on coal; there is plenty. Its not sustainable because of the impact that was been ignored and gradually accumulative. I remember when you could eat your fish you caught; now its a few per month. 10 years ago it was a few a week. Sure, we'll get "clean" coal that magically takes no energy to scrub out the bad fumes someday (maybe when cars fly... in about 5 years...)
Nukes: Don't tell any american the french as doing something better. Its a waste of time. Its better than coal/etc but I've yet to see proof of nuke power that isn't a corporate welfare program (alt energy doesn't have a fair shot for many reasons; including its distributed nature that limits the amount of corrupt influence on getting tax dollars.)
Your upward slippery slope based on the trend of human technological achievement is not a sound argument. Yeah, someday we'll surpass the laws of physics and have perpetual motion...(its an example not hypocrisy.)
mpeg 2 is what most HD is currently encoded in. H264 brings HD into broadband ranges. If you've seen how bad the compression is on digital cable or sat you could get comparable quality in HD at around 6-10MBps using H264 (see apple HD trailers.) Normal DVDs could have just barely handled HD or at least the 720 stuff without a physical media switch (which was more about new DRM anyhow.) A lot of the HD tv owners I know are limited to 720 and didn't understand that they were not getting full HD anyhow.
I think industry messed up on the whole digital move. I can see them spending billions again in 10 years to start migrating so they can pack in more channels or go to "super" HD using H264 (and ignoring H265 or H266.)
I would have designed in more scalability so 720p TVs could play "bit pealed" larger scale video like 4048p. At least delaying whole system upgrades for a longer period of time. 1080p isn't enough for everybody. (Well, I think it is for the next 50 years simply because the global econ will not be good enough. 3D? yeah, when cars fly...)
It is not fair to compare unsustainable power sources to sustainable ones. It is like comparing prices of Walmart to Fair Trade! The externalized costs being ignored. When you add up the externalized costs the benefits are not so great; furthermore, if you place value on things like pollution they lose their cost advantage. Nothing is free in the long run.
Nukes are the MOST energy dense power source (you sure picked the most extreme one.)
It all depends upon cheaply harvesting STORED energy from the sun. Solar is realtime direct harvesting; no billions of years involved. Wind is realtime indirect harvesting.
Advertisement is around 1/3 of the cost for many of these big pictures and at that ratio you cant hardly lose money. For years I've heard about $100 million films spending about $25-30 million on marketing the film and if you include the "brand name" directors and actors as partially being marketing.
I won't run the numbers but one only has to glance at the power losses on all battery tech used in power tools to see that you waste most your power on the batteries! Not to mention the waste of batteries and their short lifespan, production, disposal, and for Lithium you can't allow the batteries to over discharge from long periods of storage or you lose the battery altogether.
All this money going into managing the network FOR PROFIT AND NOT for technical reasons. Some of the worst industries for jerking around customers are cable and phone so what can a person expect? It will get as bad as possible right up to the threat of public action (aka government regulation.)
Instead of monitoring my traffic and shaping or literally doing man-in-the-middle attacks on my connection how about balancing customer traffic??
Laws should require HONEST advertising; ISPs must give me a known minimum bandwidth. Scam all you want as far as the maximum bandwidth for all I care.
ISPs should throttle users until everybody gets the minimum advertised and evenly distribute what is left.
No crazy packet inspection hardware is required for this unlike what they are doing now and planning to do next.
I don't give a rip about traffic shaping, make it effectively illegal for all I care-- our minimum bandwidth speeds will eventually be enough to cover stuff like VoIP and IPTV when managed by our own gear in our own house. Not to say I'm not against priority for some protocols-- but they must be EVENLY balanced and not biased by who I am talking with etc.
I have studied File Vault for a paper I was writing a while back. Secure Virtual Memory MUST be turned on or I can find multiple copies of your password on disk. Apple doesn't memlock this information to prevent it from going into swap. I never looked around for the actual disk image key used to see if it spreads around.
I didn't read into auto login; however, I was able to totally mess up my login keychain while still having the OS auto login the account in 10.5; therefore, a normal login doesn't use the keychain (I didn't do it with filevault on, obviously.)
Without a valid disk image header/footer there is nothing usable; I used to copy those parts of the file just in case I got into that bad of a situation.
Passwords- disk images can be attacked at full speed; pick a good password because brute force cracks everything under 8 chars in a few weeks on consumer gear.
RAM: technically ram can be recovered, since 10.5 allocation is less predictable but if you run for months before reboot/unmount of your disk image that data has been 'burned' into your ram. The specifics on this area are unclear but Guttman has a nice paper on it (and on Vista.) There IS an app for mac that will run without a trace and without authentication that will "crack" the user passwords within seconds. I've seen it.
USER folder: without encrypting WHOLE disks you risk temp files, caching, etc storing information outside your encrypted area. Hardly any apps tell you where the data goes with enough detail. (You basically have to install Apple's free add on for security auditing, and that only tells you what system calls were performed.)
Things have changed around as apple has messed around with combinations of unix, netinfo, ldap and keychain for security. That mess is sure to have some bugs in it...
Single Point of Failure? well you have lots of those already. I have been using encrypted sparse image files and encrypted static image files since it was possible over a decade ago and while I've had to repair the HFS+ systems (on disk and on the disk image) I have never lost one. I would however be happy if apple would store extents and file headers for FileVault for emergency situations.
I HAVE however lost my keychain 3 times to data corruption (and without any FS errors too.) Also NOTE: the keychain sits UNLOCKED in RAM even when it is locked in the GUI. I am not sure about extra keychains at this time (which is where I put stuff, since only the login keychain has ever been damaged beyond repair in the past.)
Secure delete and secure wipe of free space are largely a waste of time. Remember, you can plead the 5th only for now in the USA and only when it doesn't incriminate you directly does the 5th even work.
I have written AES code, its plenty secure for now; it doesn't have any backdoors.
Apple doesn't; however, there is a device that does a similar thing that is available already for Mac from a 3rd party.
The premise applies to any system where an app can be run under current user (or the guest user) and gain read access to decryption/encryption RAM.
Its HIGHLY likely that a company like Microsoft would store your passwords in an encrypted file that only the government can decode in addition to leaving in backdoors into RAM. Its not unrealistic to log all keystrokes on the system and have that go unnoticed on such a closed system (hell, a special bios could do it and use bios flash for storage.) There are millions of weak spots and you are forced to trust your compiler, OS, and hardware to be on your side.
COLOR PRINTERS have been printing serial numbers on them so your papers can track back to you. This was voluntary. Anti-virus companies were asked to ignore government software; bet they volunteered as well! ISPs were asked to handover your netwok traffic. We don't know the extents of this stuff.
Congress has discussed many times about encryption standards with backdoors on CSPAN and despite their clear ignorance one can only wonder about some of those secret laws passed and secret presidential orders that we know happened but do not know what they contained. So much has been discovered that was done voluntarily and became public already without any legislation.
Furthermore, elected officials and the government they run is FOR AND BY THE PEOPLE; therefore, the government reflects its citizens MORE in a representative democracy than most other forms of government.
Blaming government is ultimately blaming its people.
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Conceptually, yes we are still CMYK in a way. Epson has been doing 6 colors for a while on consumer junk- that is not really CMYK is it??
There are better inks too-- one's "Cyan" is not another's and the same ink differs on the paper used. If you lower your space to a generic CMYK you are essentially losing data that could possibly be exploited by a printer's informed conversion (the consumer drivers today even want to know what kind of paper you are using.) Not to mention the K part; which depending upon printer, ink, paper, halftones, can differ where the thresholds of the inks are. Applying icc profiles should be plenty; in real time even better.
I do not see why there is any real benefit to a (simulated) CMYK model in a bitmap program like GIMP. Its all RGB on screen anyhow; icc profiles for specific devices are more useful if you want to get picky as far as the on-screen preview.
OpenStep is similar to Cocoa and with more support it could keep up; it runs on linux. Objective-C++ works on linux too.
You have an references to a better model or pattern?
I'm not a MVC fanboy but I'm curious if there are any attempts to formalize the alternative models.
This is one of the BEST ideas I have heard! and I've read a lot about the issue (long before ./ even noticed anything.)
A random machine acting as a control that has a known voting pattern input during the same period of time would help catch tampering. Hardly anybody has thought this one up or dares to do it (because the machines cost so much and it would mean more voters have to wait.) Good thing to have one or two of the volunteers do all day long. (video tape that machine as well...)
Too much talk of this idea however will just let the companies ("hackers") know to ignore machines that have an unusual input pattern and count them honestly.
Who seriously uses CMYK anymore? the color space on CONSUMER printers is greater than the CMYK model these days. All my printers except the cheap color laser exceed the range and produce better output from RGB (the driver/colorsync does the color space conversion.)
RAW and 16bit TIFF...High Dynamic Range would be nice.
I had a different experience. Before Win95 Rev C you were lucky to have a softmodem not hang up if you pasted some text into notepad. Even after the fixes it was harder to troubleshoot; the macs were fixed MOST the time with a simple preference file.
Stability is hard to compare. Back then it LARGELY was the software YOU RAN because neither OS had protected memory. Adobe software ran better on mac for example (while games ran horrible on mac; esp Sierra games.) Multimedia was better on mac due to an audio HAL and quicktime. Mac apps were HARD to write and that filtered out junk but it also introduced bugs. Fundamentally, I'd say mac OS was better engineered; 1 reason is they didn't do undocumented things in the API to "help" developer errors-- MacOS would give you bad results immediately when you messed up; unlike win95 crashing for no reason an hour after the last exec.
Unfortunately, we still have drivers in kernel memory so hardware support is still a problem for everybody. Don't give me crap about speed; there are nutcases out there using tons of overhead on Virtual Machines to get around OS and hardware shortcomings.
Win95 was crap, especially if you had a mac. It was a joke so bad it was sickening. Rev C win95 actually worked so then it was just a bad rip-off.
Win2k was the best OS MS EVER made and ever will make and I wish I could still be using it if some apps didn't force XP.
Windows has always come across as the Volga (Russian car) that we are forced to buy.
The US military could not possibly rule out jamming alternatives and can't allow somebody to have a bigger dick. GPS has to be about as good or better and that is part of the motivation (other than the usual reason; giving money to contractors.)
WHO can seriously believe for a second that they'd selectively block public GPS and allow alternative systems to function? They will be able to jam the others.
The USA can't break other satellites without risking retaliation. Space Flak is far far FAR more damaging than the antiaircraft kind.
11 million is probably enough to get into all the windows boxes out there with the help of microsoft; who would love to help the US government on its war on 'terrism'.
Microsoft already has a ton of stuff in Vista to keep the music and film empires happy and nothing to do with what an OS distribution is supposed to do. Why wouldn't they help out? Wiretaping... We only know about a FEW things that eventually leaked out.
Its a Vista update away... if not already having backdoors.
How do you make a living up there? I've wondered what kind of tech related work is possible as well as the internet access. I have a cabin south of Brainard and thought it would be great to live up there.
I think a general Government necessary for us, and there is no form of government but what may be a blessing to the people if well administered, and believe farther that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in Despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic Government, being incapable of any other.
You make a good argument for more STATE power...
A study could be done showing optimal ratios; but more useful would be finding a general trend in ratios. Its reasonable to assume its linear and goes down hill; however, it important enough to want to know what the graph is and aim for the better ratios.
Clearly, the system doesn't scale above certain limits (which I argue has been already surpassed.) I think 1,000 reps is not unreasonable; however, the ratio for that is still around 1:400,000 which is not good. The current system doesn't SCALE; the founders started with about 1:30,000 or so; which is on the order of an average mayor.
The US system (not being practiced) allows for modifications such as changing the operation of the house. Foolishly, the adaptation was to limit the House to 435 instead of considering many alternatives..
It is embarrassing how the American system has failed to function properly; which I attribute to the 4th branch (news) being corrupted in many ways in addition to the spoiled selfish public neglecting their duties. (I am an American, BTW.)
Bush cheated and had massive mainstream media support.
Bush was NOT elected in 2000. He was appointed in the most openly corrupt supreme court decision ever (or likely the worst.)
Bush narrowly won 2004 if you believe computer voting works and exit polls can be 10+ points off.
Remember that many of the scandals shortly AFTER the election were KNOWN and SUPPRESSED before the election. This includes the prisoner "abuse"; which for a long time is what the media called it-- "abuse" and almost never mentioned the videos of the serious "abuse" but focused upon the less objectionable (relatively) aspects.
Computer voting in ALL forms continues to get every benefit to delay resolving the problems. They put them in without delay but getting them out even if proven rigged would take YEARS...
The government is a manifestation of the nation; the people and they are ultimately responsible.
The irony in the USA is how many nationalistic government haters oppose social programs and support the militarization & police state.
The biggest threats of government are not PBS, firefighters, free education, or healthcare; but the "law and order" areas of government.
Having said what should be obvious; the social services should be better shielded with more separation of powers.
One has to remember in the USA we tolerate world-is-flat believers and despite being a minority, they have gained disproportional representation. (thankfully, not enough to mess with evolution in most public schools yet...) In addition, the US FOOLISHLY limited the number of representatives long ago. Is there a study showing the optimal ratio of people to representative?
You assume everybody wouldn't do something as foolish as using unsustainable power. The definition of fool exists because it is applicable to many people.
Its all about EXTERNALIZED COST. Externalization can easily exploit human flaws and end up with horrible results; getting "innocent" people to contribute to vile acts. I'd reference a few studies, but somebody would incorrectly apply godwin's law.. Shifting responsibility is an extremely dangerous habit to develop.
How much the system can take and being RESPONSIBLE, one should think long term. Its not "forever" (which IS silly) but its also not a few generations.
Coal: mercury in our lakes and this global warming were externalized for 100s of years... We can go forever on coal; there is plenty. Its not sustainable because of the impact that was been ignored and gradually accumulative. I remember when you could eat your fish you caught; now its a few per month. 10 years ago it was a few a week. Sure, we'll get "clean" coal that magically takes no energy to scrub out the bad fumes someday (maybe when cars fly... in about 5 years...)
Nukes:
Don't tell any american the french as doing something better. Its a waste of time. Its better than coal/etc but I've yet to see proof of nuke power that isn't a corporate welfare program (alt energy doesn't have a fair shot for many reasons; including its distributed nature that limits the amount of corrupt influence on getting tax dollars.)
Your upward slippery slope based on the trend of human technological achievement is not a sound argument. Yeah, someday we'll surpass the laws of physics and have perpetual motion...(its an example not hypocrisy.)
mpeg 2 is what most HD is currently encoded in. H264 brings HD into broadband ranges. If you've seen how bad the compression is on digital cable or sat you could get comparable quality in HD at around 6-10MBps using H264 (see apple HD trailers.) Normal DVDs could have just barely handled HD or at least the 720 stuff without a physical media switch (which was more about new DRM anyhow.) A lot of the HD tv owners I know are limited to 720 and didn't understand that they were not getting full HD anyhow.
I think industry messed up on the whole digital move. I can see them spending billions again in 10 years to start migrating so they can pack in more channels or go to "super" HD using H264 (and ignoring H265 or H266.)
I would have designed in more scalability so 720p TVs could play "bit pealed" larger scale video like 4048p. At least delaying whole system upgrades for a longer period of time. 1080p isn't enough for everybody. (Well, I think it is for the next 50 years simply because the global econ will not be good enough. 3D? yeah, when cars fly...)
It is not fair to compare unsustainable power sources to sustainable ones. It is like comparing prices of Walmart to Fair Trade! The externalized costs being ignored. When you add up the externalized costs the benefits are not so great; furthermore, if you place value on things like pollution they lose their cost advantage. Nothing is free in the long run.
Nukes are the MOST energy dense power source (you sure picked the most extreme one.)
It all depends upon cheaply harvesting STORED energy from the sun. Solar is realtime direct harvesting; no billions of years involved. Wind is realtime indirect harvesting.
"Name Brand" Actors are partially ADVERTISING.
Advertisement is around 1/3 of the cost for many of these big pictures and at that ratio you cant hardly lose money. For years I've heard about $100 million films spending about $25-30 million on marketing the film and if you include the "brand name" directors and actors as partially being marketing.
I won't run the numbers but one only has to glance at the power losses on all battery tech used in power tools to see that you waste most your power on the batteries! Not to mention the waste of batteries and their short lifespan, production, disposal, and for Lithium you can't allow the batteries to over discharge from long periods of storage or you lose the battery altogether.
All this money going into managing the network FOR PROFIT AND NOT for technical reasons. Some of the worst industries for jerking around customers are cable and phone so what can a person expect? It will get as bad as possible right up to the threat of public action (aka government regulation.)
Instead of monitoring my traffic and shaping or literally doing man-in-the-middle attacks on my connection how about balancing customer traffic??
Laws should require HONEST advertising; ISPs must give me a known minimum bandwidth. Scam all you want as far as the maximum bandwidth for all I care.
ISPs should throttle users until everybody gets the minimum advertised and evenly distribute what is left.
No crazy packet inspection hardware is required for this unlike what they are doing now and planning to do next.
I don't give a rip about traffic shaping, make it effectively illegal for all I care-- our minimum bandwidth speeds will eventually be enough to cover stuff like VoIP and IPTV when managed by our own gear in our own house. Not to say I'm not against priority for some protocols-- but they must be EVENLY balanced and not biased by who I am talking with etc.
I have studied File Vault for a paper I was writing a while back. Secure Virtual Memory MUST be turned on or I can find multiple copies of your password on disk. Apple doesn't memlock this information to prevent it from going into swap. I never looked around for the actual disk image key used to see if it spreads around.
I didn't read into auto login; however, I was able to totally mess up my login keychain while still having the OS auto login the account in 10.5; therefore, a normal login doesn't use the keychain (I didn't do it with filevault on, obviously.)
Without a valid disk image header/footer there is nothing usable; I used to copy those parts of the file just in case I got into that bad of a situation.
Passwords- disk images can be attacked at full speed; pick a good password because brute force cracks everything under 8 chars in a few weeks on consumer gear.
RAM: technically ram can be recovered, since 10.5 allocation is less predictable but if you run for months before reboot/unmount of your disk image that data has been 'burned' into your ram. The specifics on this area are unclear but Guttman has a nice paper on it (and on Vista.) There IS an app for mac that will run without a trace and without authentication that will "crack" the user passwords within seconds. I've seen it.
USER folder:
without encrypting WHOLE disks you risk temp files, caching, etc storing information outside your encrypted area. Hardly any apps tell you where the data goes with enough detail. (You basically have to install Apple's free add on for security auditing, and that only tells you what system calls were performed.)
Things have changed around as apple has messed around with combinations of unix, netinfo, ldap and keychain for security. That mess is sure to have some bugs in it...
Single Point of Failure? well you have lots of those already. I have been using encrypted sparse image files and encrypted static image files since it was possible over a decade ago and while I've had to repair the HFS+ systems (on disk and on the disk image) I have never lost one. I would however be happy if apple would store extents and file headers for FileVault for emergency situations.
I HAVE however lost my keychain 3 times to data corruption (and without any FS errors too.) Also NOTE: the keychain sits UNLOCKED in RAM even when it is locked in the GUI. I am not sure about extra keychains at this time (which is where I put stuff, since only the login keychain has ever been damaged beyond repair in the past.)
Secure delete and secure wipe of free space are largely a waste of time. Remember, you can plead the 5th only for now in the USA and only when it doesn't incriminate you directly does the 5th even work.
I have written AES code, its plenty secure for now; it doesn't have any backdoors.
NO SURPRISE!
Apple doesn't; however, there is a device that does a similar thing that is available already for Mac from a 3rd party.
The premise applies to any system where an app can be run under current user (or the guest user) and gain read access to decryption/encryption RAM.
Its HIGHLY likely that a company like Microsoft would store your passwords in an encrypted file that only the government can decode in addition to leaving in backdoors into RAM. Its not unrealistic to log all keystrokes on the system and have that go unnoticed on such a closed system (hell, a special bios could do it and use bios flash for storage.) There are millions of weak spots and you are forced to trust your compiler, OS, and hardware to be on your side.
COLOR PRINTERS have been printing serial numbers on them so your papers can track back to you. This was voluntary. Anti-virus companies were asked to ignore government software; bet they volunteered as well! ISPs were asked to handover your netwok traffic. We don't know the extents of this stuff.
Congress has discussed many times about encryption standards with backdoors on CSPAN and despite their clear ignorance one can only wonder about some of those secret laws passed and secret presidential orders that we know happened but do not know what they contained. So much has been discovered that was done voluntarily and became public already without any legislation.
Furthermore, elected officials and the government they run is FOR AND BY THE PEOPLE; therefore, the government reflects its citizens MORE in a representative democracy than most other forms of government.
Blaming government is ultimately blaming its people.
its some kind of alcohol. largely a by product of heating actually; not sure what he does with the stuff. I suppose the tractor runs from it.